When a ski boot makes an online publication’s “Best of” list, it does signify that it’s probably a great boot, but that doesn’t mean it’s right for you. These skiers/writers know their stuff, but they don’t have the same feet as you.
But who do you turn to when the Internet can’t be relied upon?
If only there were a person with expert knowledge about boots and feet, conveniently located where ski equipment is sold. Let me introduce you to a ski shop boot fitter. A good boot fitter is like a barber and a mechanic wrapped up into one individual. They know ski boots inside and out (literally) and can tailor the right one to an individual’s specific foot and skiing style.
Good boot fitter would sit on the bench for an examination. These types of interactions always started with a conversation: “Where do you normally ski, what type of skiing do you like to do, how often do you ski…” and so on. Then the boots would come off and the liners peeled from the shells. The boot fitter would perform a shell fit — the skier places his bare foot into the plastic ski boot shell with toes just touching the front of the boot and the fitter measures the leftover space in the heel by fingers.
Our shop’s boot fitter spends roughly an hour to analyze a customer’s feet and stance to size them up in multiple pairs of boots from different brands to find just the right one. Most opt for heat-molded custom footbeds and liners. Almost every skier who bought a new pair of boots leaves our shop happy, with a strong notion that the experience and the cost were worth it.
YOUR FEET WILL THANK YOU
PS. IN OUR SKI SHOP WE TAKE CARE OF YOUR FEET
Qualified sales person provide boots that fit your feet